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7th Grade
10/04/2011

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climate
Definition
the typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
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grassland
Definition
an area populated by grasses and other non-woody plants
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food chain
Definition
a seiries of events when one organism eats another
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food web
Definition
the pattern of overlapping food chains
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energy pyramid
Definition
a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another
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desert
Definition
an area that recives les than 25 cm of rain per year
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tundra
Definition
extremely cold dry biome
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biome
Definition
a group of land ecosystems with similar climate and organisms
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condensation
Definition
the process by which a gas becomes a liquid
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evaporation
Definition
the prosses by which molecues of a liquid absorb energy and change to gas
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nitrogen fixtation
Definition
the process of changing free nitrogen gas to a form of usable nitrogen
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omnivore
Definition
a consumer that eats both plant and animals
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herbivore
Definition
a consumer that eats only plants
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carnivore
Definition
a consumer that only eats meat
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neritic zone
Definition
th region of shallow water over the continental shelf
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